Winnipeg Art Gallery - The Naadohbii: To Draw Water Symposium

MEDIA RELEASE WAG-Qaumajuq to Host Naadohbii: To Draw Water Symposium - Events will take place virtually February 3-5, 2022

We are pleased to announce that the Gallery will host a virtual symposium from February 3 to 5 in the closing week of the inaugural Winnipeg Indigenous Triennial

The Naadohbii: To Draw Water Symposium is a tri-national effort featuring Indigenous artists from Canada, Aotearoa, and Australia in discussion about topics relating to water sovereignty and solidarity

The symposium will feature performances, film screenings, artist panels, and keynote speakers from the three participating nations discussing environmental, political, and cultural traditions and interconnected relationships to water

The symposium programming is organized by Anishinaabe curator and artist Jaimie Isaac along with a team of contributors

Read more & register https://www.wag.ca/.../wag-qaumajuq-to-host-naadohbii-to.../

Thanks to Knowledge Keepers Ivy Canard and Erica Daniels (pictured here) who shared teachings and Ceremony at the opening of the exhibition, and will be bringing an opening welcome during the Symposium!

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